Belasco Theatre

May still be running1 open on the record

These opened in the last three years and carry no closing date. That is the strongest claim the data supports — an unrecorded closing looks exactly like a run still going, and the file was last checked in August 2026. A run that closed last week is still sitting in this list.

By decade214 productions across 13 decades

1. 1900s 13
2. 1910s 8
3. 1920s 32
4. 1930s 19
5. 1940s 47
6. 1950s 15
7. 1960s 17
8. 1970s 8
9. 1980s 8
10. 1990s 14
11. 2000s 13
12. 2010s 14
13. 2020s 6

Counted from the productions we hold, which are Broadway and a partial West End. A quiet decade here can mean a dark theatre and can mean a gap in the record.

Longest runs hereby performances

Ranked among the 205 runs here that record a performance count. 9 do not, so a longer run may be sitting outside this table with an empty field.

Everything that played here214 productions

In the literature8 passages

• Designed by George Keister, the magnificent Belasco Theatre at 111 West 44 th Street, New York City had been opened by producer-playwright David Belasco as the Stuyvesant in 1907. When in 1910 he surrendered ownership of the New Victory Theatre (formerly the 42 nd Street Playhouse) – a venue that had hitherto borne his name – the eccentri…ebooks/Bagnall, Rob/Still the Beast is Feeding_ 40 Years of Rocky Horror - Rob Bagnall & Phil Barden.txt
• The show’s failure to win over audiences and stuffy critics at the Belasco Theatre in 1975 had hung like an eternal embarrassing albatross around the collective necks of its creators for nearly two and a half decades of otherwise gold-paved success. Almost any given write-up of Rocky Horror history would inevitably draw attention to its u…ebooks/Bagnall, Rob/Still the Beast is Feeding_ 40 Years of Rocky Horror - Rob Bagnall & Phil Barden.txt
• Theatre : Majestic Theatre (during run, the musical transferred to the Belasco Theatre)ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• A Clearing in the Woods by Arthur Laurents (Belasco Theatre, January 10, 1957, 36 performances)ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Jane Eyre by Huntington Hartford (Belasco Theatre, May 1, 1958, 52 performances)ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt

What this page does not know

• What played here before Broadway record-keeping starts, and what played here outside it — concerts, benefits, film runs, anything that was not a listed production.
• How long 9 of these runs lasted. No performance count on the record.
• When 43 of these runs ended. They carry an opening date and no closing date, and they are old enough that they certainly closed — nobody wrote down the date.